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Tuesday, August 07, 2012

There‘s a New ’Epic’ Hack That Uses Only Two Easily Found Pieces of Information — And Here’s How to Protect Yourself

Security flaws by both Apple and Amazon has Matt Honan describing in a blog post on Wired’s GadgetLab the “epic hacking” that happened to him within the space of an hour over the weekend:
First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.
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